A large scholarship currently holds that before the onset of anthropogenic global warming,
natural climatic changes long provoked subsistence crises and, occasionally, civilizational …

Environmental degradation is increasing globally through direct anthropogenic
interventions, such as urbanisation and unsustainable land use, and human-induced …

The possibility that the Amazon forest system could soon reach a tip** point, inducing
large-scale collapse, has raised global concern,–. For 65 million years, Amazonian forests …

During the last two decades, new archaeological projects which systematically integrate a
variety of plant recovery techniques, along with palaeoecology, palaeoclimate, soil science …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

The record of past human adaptations provides crucial lessons for guiding responses to
crises in the future,–. To date, there have been no systematic global comparisons of humans' …

An estimated 90 to 95% of Indigenous people in Amazonia died after European contact. This
population collapse is postulated to have caused decreases in atmospheric carbon dioxide …

The southwestern Amazon Rainforest Ecotone (ARE) is the transitional landscape between
the tropical forest and seasonally flooded savannahs of the Bolivian Llanos de Moxos …

People have modified landscapes throughout the Holocene (the last c. 11,700 years) by
modifying soils, burning forests, cultivating and domesticating plants, and directly and …